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PhD candidate, writing about the art of government of transport planning: maps as manifestations of power, models as inseparable from plans, questions of what planning is as questions of what it should be, and good planners as bad planners.
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who was the first person to see a frozen lake and be like “get me my sharpest shoes”

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

Mmm I love the smell of diesel exhaust in southern cross station on a hot summer afternoon

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Difficult to overstate just how concerning the new Australian university definition of antisemitism is — making criticism of Israel quite likely to constitute misconduct under Australian university policies www.jewishcouncil.com.au/media/jewish...

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments

Better buses for Hobart? Your turn, Melbourne.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently it’s a point of shame that you can pay for PT with a credit card in Sydney but you can’t here, like it’s the worst thing eva about Melbourne’s PT. I’m more ashamed that Sydney’s trains are quarter-hourly until midnight and my local goes to half hourly at 8pm.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

I went with “Induced Demand” and “Eternal Traffic”

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

If you were going to name the two Westgate Tunnel tunnels, what would you call them? Competition now open... have fun! bigbuild.vic.gov.au/projects/wes...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 21 days ago • 88 comments

True Australian culture has finally reached a global audience

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

This kind of objection to a relatively human-scaled development bugs me. It bugs me because it's a limited view of heritage as something that has been and gone, and not as something we continue to create. And it bugs me because half of Ballarat's heritage city centre is asphalt wasteland.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Why the heck is the 2. Stammstrecke so deep?

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Amazing. I live in one of the recently opened "affordable" housing units. I've just been informed that my rent is going up by 17%.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

This is a symptom of a deeply unserious public transport system, managed by a political class who give zero friggs about enabling access for rural/regional places and only care about the short-term sugar hit that cutting fares gives them.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll happily accept a ban on kids using social media only if there’s a concomitant ban on adults using news corp media.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I can't be bothered deciphering how ANCAP calculates their "vulnerable" road user scores, but needless to say that as long as we live in a city where the default speed limit is a lethal 50km/hr, and where bike riders are expected to mix with even faster traffic, no car should pass any safety test.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

By way of comparison, QLD has spent $181 million to not actually improve service. That money could buy around 450km of high-frequency bus service (/10 mins, 6am-10pm), every day, for a year.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

This represents around a -20% elasticity of demand, which is at the lower end of international studies (10% lower fares gives 2% more passengers). FWIW, service improvement are estimated around 60% to 90% in the short term (i.e., doubling service frequencies gives you 60-90% more passengers).

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and concerned with turning ideas into real-world change. TAing his parking course these past few years has one of the greatest honors of my life. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg.

submitted 33 days ago • 46 comments

Less than 2% of the 15,000 workers in this industrial precinct, south of Melbourne Airport, took PT to work on the 2016 and 2021 census days. There are eight buses each way, each weekday: four each in the AM and PM peaks, each an hour apart. Can you really blame people for driving in this context?

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

The Flemington Rd bike lanes require you to ride in a narrow lane wedged between parked cars on the left (although often empty) and 60km/hr traffic on the right (although often at a standstill). There's no protection. Just hope/fear. And we wonder why people ride on the footpath?

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

New bicycle infrastructure just dropped! New “no bicycles” stencils have been painted on the footpath adjacent to Flemington Rd. You know, rather than actually doing something to make cycling in the bike lane feel safe and welcoming.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Amazing how quickly the pro-nuclear types made their way into my replies. The point is a comparison between a nuclear province and a hydro province. No shit, Canada has excellent hydro resources! Australia has excellent solar potential. Cheaper and more readily available than nuclear. Use it!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Meanwhile, electricity in 100% hydroelectric Quebec is about half the price of electricity in 65% nuclear Ontario.

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

I would love to see an equivalent list for the bus priority lanes that the Victorian government promised in the 2018 election... Oh... 😔

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Blows my mind that a lake twice the size of Narm-Narm was drained to make way for Mexico City.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Hmm marginalised people playing Pfandsammler for below-minimum-wage rates is not the win for social equity that you think it is.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments